The Year of Our Lord 1524

Bishop Events

July to December

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Jul Appointed Bartolomeo Cesi † Bishop of Narni, Italy

55.5 Resigned Sigismondo Gonzaga † Administrator of Aversa, Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria Nuova

Appointed Antonio Scaglioni † Bishop of Aversa, Italy

8 Jul 21.5 Appointed Luca Bisanti † Coadjutor Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro Bishop Emeritus

34.5 Appointed Gavin Dunbar † Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain

10 Jul Died Biagio Caropipe † Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy

15 Jul 15.5 Appointed Paolo del Carretto † Bishop of Cahors, France

37.4 Confirmed Heinrich von Rhein (Palatins, von der Pfalz) † Bishop of Utrecht, Netherlands Bishop of Freising, Germany

24 Jul 56.5 Resigned Marino Ascanio Caracciolo † Bishop of Catania, Italy Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus

Appointed Scipione Caracciolo † Bishop of Catania, Italy

42.5 Died Marco Cornaro † Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

48.7 Appointed Giovanni Piccolomini † Cardinal-Bishop of Albano Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Siena, Italy

65.9 Appointed Lorenzo Pucci † Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

25 Jul Ordained Bishop Bartolomeo Cesi † Bishop of Narni, Italy

29 Jul Appointed Camillo Peruschini † Bishop of Massa Marittima, Italy Bishop Emeritus

Aug 34.5 Selected Georg von Blumenthal † Coadjutor Bishop of Ratzeburg, Germany Bishop of Lebus, Germany

Died René du Puy † Bishop of Lodève, France

8 Aug 44.4 Appointed Girolamo Aleandro † Archbishop of Brindisi, Italy Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

48.1 Resigned Gian Pietro Carafa † Archbishop of Brindisi, Italy Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)

52.6 Appointed Egidio da Viterbo, O.E.S.A. † Titular Patriarch of Constantinople Cardinal, Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy

29.6 Appointed Giovanni Matteo Giberti † Bishop of Verona, Italy

Appointed Giovanni Gregorio Peroschi † Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy Bishop Emeritus

30.6 Appointed Francesco Pisani † Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

10 Aug Died Jacques de Castelnau † Bishop of Périgueux (Vesuna), France

13 Aug 44.6 Died Giovanni Battista Pallavicino † Cardinal, Bishop of Cavaillon, France

17 Aug 26.8 Appointed Benedetto de Accolti † Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy

69.4 Resigned Pietro de Accolti de Aretio † Administrator of Ravenna, Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina

Appointed Philibert Beaujeu le Doux, O.S.B. † Titular Bishop of Bethleem

31.6 Appointed Giovanni Domenico de Cupis † Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Apollinare Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

18 Aug 69.4 Appointed Pietro de Accolti de Aretio † Administrator of Cremona, Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina

23 Aug Died Edmund Audley † Bishop of Salisbury, England, Great Britain

24 Aug 48.1 Ceased Gian Pietro Carafa † Apostolic Administrator of Chieti, Italy Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)

Appointed Jean Jolici, O.P. † Titular Bishop of Hebron

Appointed Felice Trofino † Bishop of Chieti, Italy Archbishop of Chieti, Italy

29 Aug Born Johann von Haugwitz † Former Bishop-Elect of Meißen (Meissen), Germany

2 Sep Appointed Tommaso de Nigris † Bishop of Trogir (Traù), Croatia Bishop Emeritus

Appointed Zaccaria Trevisan † Bishop of Hvar (Lesina), Croatia Bishop Emeritus

9 Sep Appointed João Chaves, O.F.M. Obs. † Bishop of Viseu, Portugal

45.6 Died Zacharias Ferrari, O.S.B. † Bishop of Guardialfiera (Guardia), Italy

Appointed Mario Maffei † Bishop of Cavaillon, France

11 Sep 44.6 Ordained Bishop Rafał Leszczyński † Bishop of Płock, Poland

19 Sep 38.7 Appointed Gabriel de Gramont † Cardinal, Bishop of Tarbes, France

Appointed Ménald de Martory, O.S.A. † Bishop of (Saint-Lizier de) Couserans (or Conserans), France

Appointed Girolamo Vascheri, O.F.M. † Bishop of Guardialfiera (Guardia), Italy Bishop Emeritus

23 Sep Appointed Isidoro Almopaveri † Titular Archbishop of Heraclea in Europa

Appointed Antonio Beccari (Becariis), O.P. † Bishop of Shkodrë (Scutari), Albania

24 Sep Died Jean Mule † Bishop of Oslo, Norway

29 Sep 46.7 Ordained Bishop García de Loaysa y Mendoza, O.P. † Bishop of Osma, Spain Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain

2 Oct Died Heinrich Bergmeier † Bishop of Ratzeburg, Germany

34.7 Succeeded Georg von Blumenthal † Bishop of Ratzeburg, Germany Bishop of Lebus, Germany

5 Oct 50.7 Appointed Livio Podocatharo † Archbishop of Nicosia, Cyprus Archbishop Emeritus

7 Oct 74.7 Died Antonio Contarini, C.R.S.A. † Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy

9 Oct 44.6 Ordained Priest Girolamo Aleandro † Priest Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Brindisi, Italy

12 Oct Appointed Giovanni de Rosa † Bishop of Scardona (Skradin), Croatia Bishop of Krk (Veglia), Croatia

16 Oct Ordained Bishop Antonio Beccari (Becariis), O.P. † Bishop of Shkodrë (Scutari), Albania

Born Nicolas de Lorraine † Former Bishop-Elect of Verdun, France

17 Oct 60.8 Resigned Andrea Della Valle † Administrator of Gallipoli, Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

Appointed Jerónimo Muñoz † Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy Bishop Emeritus

Appointed Michele Zono † Bishop of Kisamos (Cisamo), Greece

21 Oct Appointed Edmund Butler, O.SS.T. † Archbishop of Cashel, Ireland

Appointed John Sean Quinn (Coyn), O.P. † Bishop of Limerick, Ireland

Died Thomas Le Roy † Bishop-Elect of Dol, France

Appointed Gerolamo Querini, O.P. † Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy

26 Oct Appointed Fülöp Csulai Móré † Bishop of Pécs, Hungary

46.8 Appointed Pedro Gómez Sarmiento de Villandrando † Bishop of Badajoz, Spain Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Appointed Pedro González Manso † Bishop of Tuy, Spain Bishop of Osma, Spain

Appointed Giovanni Stafileo † Bishop of Dol, France Bishop of Šibenik (Knin), Croatia

27 Oct Appointed Guillaume de Joyeuse † Bishop of Alet, France Bishop Emeritus

Nov Died James Hepburn † Bishop of Moray, Scotland, Great Britain

11 Nov Ordained Bishop John Sean Quinn (Coyn), O.P. † Bishop of Limerick, Ireland

12 Nov Born Diego de Landa, O.F.M. † Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), México

73.8 Died Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca † Archbishop of Rossano, Italy

13 Nov Ordained Bishop Jerónimo Muñoz † Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy Bishop Emeritus

14 Nov 39.8 Appointed Gaspar Ávalos de la Cueva † Bishop of Guadix, Spain Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

60.9 Resigned Andrea Della Valle † Bishop of Crotone (Cotrone), Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

28.8 Appointed Giovanni Matteo Lucifero † Bishop of Crotone (Cotrone), Italy

49.0 Appointed Giovanni Piccolomini † Administrator of Umbriatico (Umbriaticum), Italy Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Siena, Italy

Appointed Guillermo Valdenese † Bishop of Elne, France Bishop of Coria, Spain

Dec 50.9 Died Francisco Herrera Ruesta † Archbishop of Granada, Spain

2 Dec 50.0 Appointed Lorenzo Campeggio † Administrator of Salisbury, England, Great Britain Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina

9 Dec Appointed Raffaele Alessandrini, O.F.M. Obs. † Bishop of Sarsina, Italy

11 Dec 42.9 Appointed Musa al-Akkari † Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon

14 Dec Appointed Claude Prato (du Prat), O.S.B. † Bishop of Mende, France

19 Dec Appointed Antonio Numai † Bishop of Isernia, Italy Bishop Emeritus

Resigned Cristoforo Numai, O.F.M. Obs. † Bishop of Isernia, Italy Cardinal, Administrator of Alatri, Italy

21 Dec 27.1 Ordained Bishop Benedetto de Accolti † Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy

29.9 Ordained Bishop Giovanni Matteo Giberti † Bishop of Verona, Italy

Ordained Bishop Felice Trofino † Bishop of Chieti, Italy Archbishop of Chieti, Italy

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Jul		Appointed	Bartolomeo Cesi †	Bishop of Narni, Italy
55.5	Resigned	Sigismondo Gonzaga †	Administrator of Aversa, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria Nuova
	Appointed	Antonio Scaglioni †	Bishop of Aversa, Italy
8 Jul	21.5	Appointed	Luca Bisanti †	Coadjutor Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro	Bishop Emeritus
34.5	Appointed	Gavin Dunbar †	Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain
10 Jul		Died	Biagio Caropipe †	Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy
15 Jul	15.5	Appointed	Paolo del Carretto †	Bishop of Cahors, France
37.4	Confirmed	Heinrich von Rhein (Palatins, von der Pfalz) †	Bishop of Utrecht, Netherlands	Bishop of Freising, Germany
24 Jul	56.5	Resigned	Marino Ascanio Caracciolo †	Bishop of Catania, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
	Appointed	Scipione Caracciolo †	Bishop of Catania, Italy
42.5	Died	Marco Cornaro †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
48.7	Appointed	Giovanni Piccolomini †	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Siena, Italy
65.9	Appointed	Lorenzo Pucci †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
25 Jul		Ordained Bishop	Bartolomeo Cesi †	Bishop of Narni, Italy
29 Jul		Appointed	Camillo Peruschini †	Bishop of Massa Marittima, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
Aug	34.5	Selected	Georg von Blumenthal †	Coadjutor Bishop of Ratzeburg, Germany	Bishop of Lebus, Germany
	Died	René du Puy †	Bishop of Lodève, France
8 Aug	44.4	Appointed	Girolamo Aleandro †	Archbishop of Brindisi, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
48.1	Resigned	Gian Pietro Carafa †	Archbishop of Brindisi, Italy	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
52.6	Appointed	Egidio da Viterbo, O.E.S.A. †	Titular Patriarch of Constantinople	Cardinal, Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy
29.6	Appointed	Giovanni Matteo Giberti †	Bishop of Verona, Italy
	Appointed	Giovanni Gregorio Peroschi †	Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
30.6	Appointed	Francesco Pisani †	Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
10 Aug		Died	Jacques de Castelnau †	Bishop of Périgueux (Vesuna), France
13 Aug	44.6	Died	Giovanni Battista Pallavicino †	Cardinal, Bishop of Cavaillon, France
17 Aug	26.8	Appointed	Benedetto de Accolti †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy
69.4	Resigned	Pietro de Accolti de Aretio †	Administrator of Ravenna, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
	Appointed	Philibert Beaujeu le Doux, O.S.B. †	Titular Bishop of Bethleem
31.6	Appointed	Giovanni Domenico de Cupis †	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Apollinare	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
18 Aug	69.4	Appointed	Pietro de Accolti de Aretio †	Administrator of Cremona, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
23 Aug		Died	Edmund Audley †	Bishop of Salisbury, England, Great Britain
24 Aug	48.1	Ceased	Gian Pietro Carafa †	Apostolic Administrator of Chieti, Italy	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	Appointed	Jean Jolici, O.P. †	Titular Bishop of Hebron
	Appointed	Felice Trofino †	Bishop of Chieti, Italy	Archbishop of Chieti, Italy
29 Aug		Born	Johann von Haugwitz †		Former Bishop-Elect of Meißen (Meissen), Germany
2 Sep		Appointed	Tommaso de Nigris †	Bishop of Trogir (Traù), Croatia	Bishop Emeritus
	Appointed	Zaccaria Trevisan †	Bishop of Hvar (Lesina), Croatia	Bishop Emeritus
9 Sep		Appointed	João Chaves, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Viseu, Portugal
45.6	Died	Zacharias Ferrari, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Guardialfiera (Guardia), Italy
	Appointed	Mario Maffei †	Bishop of Cavaillon, France
11 Sep	44.6	Ordained Bishop	Rafał Leszczyński †	Bishop of Płock, Poland
19 Sep	38.7	Appointed	Gabriel de Gramont †	Cardinal, Bishop of Tarbes, France
	Appointed	Ménald de Martory, O.S.A. †	Bishop of (Saint-Lizier de) Couserans (or Conserans), France
	Appointed	Girolamo Vascheri, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Guardialfiera (Guardia), Italy	Bishop Emeritus
23 Sep		Appointed	Isidoro Almopaveri †	Titular Archbishop of Heraclea in Europa
	Appointed	Antonio Beccari (Becariis), O.P. †	Bishop of Shkodrë (Scutari), Albania
24 Sep		Died	Jean Mule †	Bishop of Oslo, Norway
29 Sep	46.7	Ordained Bishop	García de Loaysa y Mendoza, O.P. †	Bishop of Osma, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
2 Oct		Died	Heinrich Bergmeier †	Bishop of Ratzeburg, Germany
34.7	Succeeded	Georg von Blumenthal †	Bishop of Ratzeburg, Germany	Bishop of Lebus, Germany
5 Oct	50.7	Appointed	Livio Podocatharo †	Archbishop of Nicosia, Cyprus	Archbishop Emeritus
7 Oct	74.7	Died	Antonio Contarini, C.R.S.A. †	Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
9 Oct	44.6	Ordained Priest	Girolamo Aleandro †	Priest	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Brindisi, Italy
12 Oct		Appointed	Giovanni de Rosa †	Bishop of Scardona (Skradin), Croatia	Bishop of Krk (Veglia), Croatia
16 Oct		Ordained Bishop	Antonio Beccari (Becariis), O.P. †	Bishop of Shkodrë (Scutari), Albania
	Born	Nicolas de Lorraine †		Former Bishop-Elect of Verdun, France
17 Oct	60.8	Resigned	Andrea Della Valle †	Administrator of Gallipoli, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
	Appointed	Jerónimo Muñoz †	Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	Appointed	Michele Zono †	Bishop of Kisamos (Cisamo), Greece
21 Oct		Appointed	Edmund Butler, O.SS.T. †	Archbishop of Cashel, Ireland
	Appointed	John Sean Quinn (Coyn), O.P. †	Bishop of Limerick, Ireland
	Died	Thomas Le Roy †	Bishop-Elect of Dol, France
	Appointed	Gerolamo Querini, O.P. †	Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
26 Oct		Appointed	Fülöp Csulai Móré †	Bishop of Pécs, Hungary
46.8	Appointed	Pedro Gómez Sarmiento de Villandrando †	Bishop of Badajoz, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
	Appointed	Pedro González Manso †	Bishop of Tuy, Spain	Bishop of Osma, Spain
	Appointed	Giovanni Stafileo †	Bishop of Dol, France	Bishop of Šibenik (Knin), Croatia
27 Oct		Appointed	Guillaume de Joyeuse †	Bishop of Alet, France	Bishop Emeritus
Nov		Died	James Hepburn †	Bishop of Moray, Scotland, Great Britain
11 Nov		Ordained Bishop	John Sean Quinn (Coyn), O.P. †	Bishop of Limerick, Ireland
12 Nov		Born	Diego de Landa, O.F.M. †		Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), México
73.8	Died	Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca †	Archbishop of Rossano, Italy
13 Nov		Ordained Bishop	Jerónimo Muñoz †	Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
14 Nov	39.8	Appointed	Gaspar Ávalos de la Cueva †	Bishop of Guadix, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
60.9	Resigned	Andrea Della Valle †	Bishop of Crotone (Cotrone), Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
28.8	Appointed	Giovanni Matteo Lucifero †	Bishop of Crotone (Cotrone), Italy
49.0	Appointed	Giovanni Piccolomini †	Administrator of Umbriatico (Umbriaticum), Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Siena, Italy
	Appointed	Guillermo Valdenese †	Bishop of Elne, France	Bishop of Coria, Spain
Dec	50.9	Died	Francisco Herrera Ruesta †	Archbishop of Granada, Spain
2 Dec	50.0	Appointed	Lorenzo Campeggio †	Administrator of Salisbury, England, Great Britain	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
9 Dec		Appointed	Raffaele Alessandrini, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Sarsina, Italy
11 Dec	42.9	Appointed	Musa al-Akkari †	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
14 Dec		Appointed	Claude Prato (du Prat), O.S.B. †	Bishop of Mende, France
19 Dec		Appointed	Antonio Numai †	Bishop of Isernia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	Resigned	Cristoforo Numai, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Isernia, Italy	Cardinal, Administrator of Alatri, Italy
21 Dec	27.1	Ordained Bishop	Benedetto de Accolti †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy
29.9	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Matteo Giberti †	Bishop of Verona, Italy
	Ordained Bishop	Felice Trofino †	Bishop of Chieti, Italy	Archbishop of Chieti, Italy

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